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Rumors aboard Mashape's spaceship

During our last post, we discussed a few use cases for leveraging the technology of the Slice API to its full potential. In this installment, we will take you through how integration with our API has enabled developers to create their own unique user experiences.
The great thing about the Slice API is that our technology empowers developers with endless opportunities to create experiences that help users with all aspects of the post-purchase experience. We’ve worked with startups like Gone and Trov that help customers manage their purchases, with help from our item level data. Our real-time shipment tracking also…

The latest update of Kong (0.4.2) ships with some bugfixes and improvements, including:

Fixes:

Support for Cassandra authentication.
Support for “Resource Owner Credentials Grant” OAuth 2.0 flow.
“preserve_host” flag on APIs to preserve the Host header when a request is proxied.
Better support for multi-node Cassandra clusters.
And more.

Roadmap to 0.5.0

As announced in the previous newsletter, we are working hard to ship 0.5.0 with advanced new plugins and improvements. Feel free to contribute by opening issues/pull requests on our Github repository, or chatting with…

At Mashape, we’ve been building a new product, APIAnalytics, to let anyone easily track and monitor anything related to HTTP in their applications. To be successful, it needs to be extremely easy to plug any application into it. There’s many ways to achieve that with as little friction as possible, such as agents and libraries for every popular language, but for now let’s talk about HTTP proxies.
Some of our requirements for HARchiver, our official lightweight proxy for APIAnalytics are: